These are not the customs of a lawless banditti, of outcasts or renegades, but solemn enactments of state legislatures, devised by talent and eminence, enforced and preserved by the oligarchical few, by the virtual nobility and flower of populous communities.
Mann condemns the laws that uphold slavery as products of a corrupt political system.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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